RAMON

MAGSAYSAY
MEMORIAL
COLLEGES
College of Teacher
Education

ENGL349:
AFRO-ASIAN
LITERATURE
MODULE
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Course Outline
Course Name ENGL349

Descriptive Title Afro-Asian Literature

Course Description The course Afro-Asian Literature plays an increasingly important role in educating the
students in becoming professionally imbued with the ideals of a true personhood in the
community of nations. This course is a selective yet intensive study of the literature
produced in Asia and Africa, as well as India and the Islamic world (the Middle East).
This requires a textual reading of representative texts for the purpose of experiencing
the national dynamics of national or international consciousness in the literature of
each country or continent, and to discover perspectives held in common by those
countries as seen in their literature.

Course Learning At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
Outcome
1. draw logical conclusions about life from the literary pieces they have read;
2. analyze literary pieces and be able to reflect in the significant ideas and
values expressed in them;
3. explain different customs and traditions of Afro-Asian countries depicted in the
literature;
4. summarize and outline the plot of the various pieces of African and Asian
literature;
5. reflect with the ideas expressed in different Afro-Asian literary pieces;
6. compose unified and coherent paragraph/essays using different rhetorical
devices;
7. write critical analysis paper on the literary pieces discussed;
8. demonstrate deeper appreciation of Afro-Asian literature by the literary
devices used; and
9. discover literature as a means of understanding others’ culture and of
developing sensitivity and diversity.

Credit Unit 3

Time Allotment 48 Hours

Course Content and Time Frame

Examination
Week Course Content or Topic
Coverage
I. INDIAN LITERATURE
a. Pachatantra
 The Lionmakers
 The Duel Between the Elephant and the Sparrow
b. Savitri’s Love
1
c. Gitanjali
II. HEBREW LITERATURE
a. The Story of Joseph
Prelim b. The Story of Ruth
c. The Parable of Talents
III. PERSIAN LITERATURE
a. Hell and Heaven (Sadi)
b. The Captive Gets a Wife (Jami)
2 c. Sohrab and Rustum
IV. ARABIAN LITERATURE
a. Arabian Knights
b. The Food of Paradise
Midterm 3 V. CHINESE LITERATURE
a. Poems of Famous Chinese Poets
b. Conceited Coachman
c. Little Incident
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VI. JAPANESE LITERATURE

a. The Thief Who Became a Disciple
4 b. My Native Village
c. The Picture Wife
d. The Spider’s Thread
VII. AFRICAN LITERATURE
a. Once Upon a Time
Final 6 b. The Wrestling Contest Between the Cat and the Tortoise
c. Life on a Slave Ship
d. Anticipation

Course Requirements

1. Examination
2. Critical Analysis Outputs
3. Class Attendance, Assignments, Quizzes, Recitation, Class Participation
4. Google e-mail account
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Table of Contents

Content Page Number

Cover Page i

Course Outline ii

Table of Content iv

Prelim

Module 1: Indian Literature 1

Module 2: Hebrew Literature 20

Midterm

Module 3: Persian Literature 31

Module 4: Arabian Literature 49

Final

Module 5: Chinese Literature 60

Module 6: Japanese Literature 73

Module 7: African Literature 86

Culminating Activity 105

References 106